"Artists such as Biehle and Schreckengost were influenced in the early 20th century by contemporary innovations such as the Cubist style unleashed in America by the 1913 Armory Show in New York.

"Biehle's radiantly powerful 'Brandywine Road,' a landscape painted that same year, turns a scene of sunlight bursting through clouds over farm country into an arrangement of geometric forms and rays of energy that look very much up to the minute."

Wild German Painter Visits Zoar

January 14, 2019ARTe, from the Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce

In Munich he mixed with leading modernists like Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc and the artists they attracted from across Europe. Biehle took their new style across the Atlantic as Cleveland and Munich became the hubs at either end of the Expressionist axle moving modern art forward. Biehle, the slight young Sherwin-Williams paint demonstrator became the messenger between the two camps as the Kokoon Arts Club became modern art’s American clubhouse.